Film Location: 500 Days of Summer

Remember the bench scenes in 500 Days of Summer? That's a real place in downtown Los Angeles. When I first watched the movie I didn't realize that I had been there already, it looked more grand on the big screen, almost like another city. But that's how movie magic works: filmmakers take an ordinary place and make it cool.

Here's a little footage from a recent visit.

[HT to Thad for being my bench model]

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